Cinnamon CrispsRidiculously easy, and beyond addictive. Serve them with ice cream...or just eat 'em as snacks.Serves 8Ingredients:Ree | The Pioneer WomanDesserts1 stick Butter, Melted3 whole Flour Tortillas (small Size)1 cup Sugar1 Tablespoon Ground CinnamonInstructions:Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Mix together the sugar and cinnamon.
Brush butter on one side of the flour tortillas. Sprinkle generously with the cinnamon sugar. Flip tortillas to the other side, then sprinkle on the cinnamon sugar.
Bake for 15-17 minutes until very crisp. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
Break into pieces and eat as snacks...or serve with ice cream!Cook time: PT15MPrep time: PT5M

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Cinnamon Crisps

First of all, these crisps are about the most delicious things you’ll ever eat.

Second, these crisps are about the easiest things you’ll ever make.

Third, when I was a little girl, I had a stuffed monkey named Womba. His hands Velcroed together and I think I might have worn him as an accessory for the first half of my fourth grade year. Sometimes he was around my shoulders like a cardigan. Sometimes he was around my waist like a belt. Sometimes he was criss-crossed over my shoulder like a purse. And if I was nervous, I’d stroke his soft, fuzzy head and would feel better instantly.

I always wondered why Brad Benz didn’t like me.

Back to my original point: These crisps are about the most delicious things you’ll ever eat. I made them using homemade tortillas to go with cinnamon ice cream (swoon) in my next cookbook…but I also made them last week for a Food Network episode we filmed here on the ranch, and the guys absolutely inhaled them. So yesterday, for a Sunday snack, I made ’em again using storebought tortillas and served ’em with storebought vanilla ice cream. And they were still utterly divine.

You won’t believe the simplicity. And you won’t believe how addictive they are!

This is what you need!

And you also need to preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Add some sugar and ground cinnamon to a bowl.

Then grab a fork and use it to violently combine the two…

Until the two are now one!

Did you ever wear a stuffed monkey as an accessory when you were a child? I’m just asking.

(Note: If you’ve ever worn a stuffed monkey as an accessory when you were an adult, I’d rather not know. Thank you.)

Next, melt some butter.

Dip in a pastry brush…

And very, very generously brush the butter on one side of a flour tortilla.

Basically, you want to douse the sucker. Pretty much the only way you can mess up these things is if you don’t get enough butter on them at this stage.

Then do the same for a couple of other tortillas.

Right away, start sprinkling on the cinnamon sugar. You want it to totally cover the tortilla and mostly be absorbed by the butter. When most of it has been absorbed, sprinkle on a little more!

Repeat it with the other two tortillas, then flip them all over to the other side.

And repeat the process with the butter…

And the sugar. Next, just pop ’em in the oven for about 15-17 minutes…

And brace yourself.

Just brace yourself.

This is what they should look like!

They’re crunchy. They’re crispy. They’re magical.

But you have to put them aside and let them cool completely.

Note: This will be extremely difficult.

So while we wait: Have you ever given your summer camp crush a hug goodbye when you were twelve, then turned around to leave and tripped over a rock and fell, scabbing your knee?

I’m just asking.

A minute or so after removing the pan from the oven, use a knife to loosen the crisps from the pan so they won’t stick until the end of eternity.

But really, there’s so much butter in these heavenly objects, they really don’t stick that badly.

After they’re totally cooled, break them into pieces. They should be totally crisp and hard, and should break apart pretty neatly.

You can’t know. You can’t know the deliciousness until you try them. And at this point, you could break them up into smaller pieces, bag them up, and use them as snacks.

But I have other plans for them.

I scream.

One…two…three…

TA-DA!

Wondrous. Just a wondrous, wonderful, fabulous combination.

You can also do smaller dishes of ice cream and have some fun sticking the crisps right in the scoop.

And use them as spoons!

Goodness gracious, my friends. Make ’em this week. They’re too good not to. And they’re a complete cinch.

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Donna H.

I woke up at four a.m. and stumbled into the office, fired up the ol’ computer and lo and behold there they were!! These beautiful, scrumptious looking crisps! After I clean the screen from all the licking I’m headed to the kitchen to make these babies! I bet I have the whole house up before too long!!! G’ Morning everyone!

Donna H.

I woke up at four a.m. and stumbled into the office, fired up the ol’ computer and lo and behold there they were!! These beautiful, scrumptious looking crisps! After I clean the screen from all the licking I’m headed to the kitchen to make these babies! I bet I have the whole house up before too long!!! G’ Morning everyone!

Liz

You can get these at a lot of the Mexican eateries around San Antonio- in fact my inlaws just brought us about four big packages of them! I think they’re deep fried. They call them buñuelos. But man oh man are they delish. Yay!

Liz

You can get these at a lot of the Mexican eateries around San Antonio- in fact my inlaws just brought us about four big packages of them! I think they’re deep fried. They call them buñuelos. But man oh man are they delish. Yay!

Sheila H. from MO

Ice cream and cinnamon crisps for breakfast… sounds good to me!!!

Sheila H. from MO

Ice cream and cinnamon crisps for breakfast… sounds good to me!!!

Monie

These look divine, and I’m quite sure they would never make it through the ‘cool down’ phase…I’m just talkin’ about cinnamon love here. I can also just imagine how good your kitchen was smelling while all this deliciousness was happening! 🙂

Monie

These look divine, and I’m quite sure they would never make it through the ‘cool down’ phase…I’m just talkin’ about cinnamon love here. I can also just imagine how good your kitchen was smelling while all this deliciousness was happening! 🙂

Lou

These look magnifico! One teeny tiny suggestion: try these with Penzey’s Vietnamese cinnamon. Your life won’t be the same after it!

Lou

These look magnifico! One teeny tiny suggestion: try these with Penzey’s Vietnamese cinnamon. Your life won’t be the same after it!

Claudia

At my favorite Mexican restaurant they call these sopapillas. Very different from the puffy sopapillas in other places. But, as you said, very delicious. Sometimes they also drizzle honey on them; in fact, if you don’t want honey on them, you should let them know in advance.

Claudia

At my favorite Mexican restaurant they call these sopapillas. Very different from the puffy sopapillas in other places. But, as you said, very delicious. Sometimes they also drizzle honey on them; in fact, if you don’t want honey on them, you should let them know in advance.

Ree, did you say ‘cinnamon and sugar’? I.AM.THERE. Put cinnamon and sugar on just about anything, serve with a steaming mug of tea and it becomes a magic moment!
Happy Monday to all on the Drummond Ranch! Hope it’s a fantastic one! 🙂
God Bless.
xoxo,
~Bon

Bonnie M

Ree, did you say ‘cinnamon and sugar’? I.AM.THERE. Put cinnamon and sugar on just about anything, serve with a steaming mug of tea and it becomes a magic moment!
Happy Monday to all on the Drummond Ranch! Hope it’s a fantastic one! 🙂
God Bless.
xoxo,
~Bon

Dana C

We have a cat who lives on our frontporch, my husband built him a little house because he wouldnt leave the porch, ever… For some reason the kids put a banana peel in his bowl last week, I am sure they had a good reason??!! So a lady comes to the door selling aireal photos of our farm & asked my husband what the banana was for, & if we had a put monkey living in that house…she was serious! Who keeps a pet monkey on their porch in Iowa!!?? Not exactly tropical weather here folks!

Dana C

We have a cat who lives on our frontporch, my husband built him a little house because he wouldnt leave the porch, ever… For some reason the kids put a banana peel in his bowl last week, I am sure they had a good reason??!! So a lady comes to the door selling aireal photos of our farm & asked my husband what the banana was for, & if we had a put monkey living in that house…she was serious! Who keeps a pet monkey on their porch in Iowa!!?? Not exactly tropical weather here folks!

Emily West

We make these and use them as a dipping chip for fruit salsa. Just cut up any fresh fruit and mix it all together. Serve with cinnamon chips! Delish!

Emily West

We make these and use them as a dipping chip for fruit salsa. Just cut up any fresh fruit and mix it all together. Serve with cinnamon chips! Delish!

Judy

Love the little bowl you used to mix the cinnamon sugar—-anyone know where it comes from?